Stall construction.



UNITED S'lA'llt "A'LJLINA un 111mm.

HENRY L. rnRRIs, or HARVARD, ILLINOIS, AssIsNoR ro HUNT, HELM, FERRIS &

COMPANY, or4 HARVARD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or ILLINoIs.

STALL CONSTRUCTIDN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N0v.18, 1913.

Application' led March 15, 1912. Serial No. 683,997.

and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 of Fig. 1. Referring to the drawings, 3 .1s a sill which will'ordinarily lie along the line of separating'the stall fromV the manger; 4 is a vertical upright vforming a part of the barn structure. At intervals along the sill, vertical posts 5 are erected to which and to the 'vertical postmember the stall-sides may be secured in anydesiredmanner. f

6 is a horizontal bar of the stall end-frame and 7 -is an inverted U-shaped member` attached thereto and therewith completing the end-frame. Thelower bar 6 is longitudinally adjustable by means of brackets 8 attached to the vertical member 4 and to-the posts 5 of thegseries. A horizontal bar '9 is attached to'the posts 5 of the series and to the vertical member 4 and thereon is mounted an adjusting bracket 10, which has a portion embracing the horizontal Ibar 9 and a longitudinally-extending flange 11 having a series of perforations adapted to beengaged by ears l2 onthe stall. end 'frame. By means ofthe adjusting brackets 8-and the o bracket .l0 the entire frame may be moved longitudinally of the stall for the purpose of securing the now known desir.-

able results of such adjustment; The stall end-frame, of course, carriesla stanchion or other animalfastening means 'as may-be de.A

sired.

, In the manufacture of stall-constructions,

in accordance with a unit l.system whereby any number of stalls may be arranged in se- 1 ries, several different constructions have been devised lby me in the past. i Certain of these embody the use ofthe particular 'form .ofstallend-frame here shown.' It is often found, however,. that there are particular spaces in'gve'n barnslying between up.-

;Svrights, sueltasI Lthe uprights 4, which are al.-

ready in position in the barn as a part of the frame-work thereof. These special spaces are of irregular and varying sizes which often do not accommodate themselves to stock.v sizes of stall parts which can be present construction is more -especially devised. The present stall end-frames can be made 1n two or three stock-sizes with their lower barsI or members projecting at the.

ends more than is likely to be needed. Any special or irregular space can tlien'be divided into-the requisite numbe` of stallpanels by the erection of the vertical post in`them and by merely sawing ott the ends of the straight projecting lower members of the stall end-frame, these can be brought to' the proper lateral dimension. The upper part of the stall end-frame being supported -at the middle on the horizontal bar 9 oiers 'no obstacle to this adjustment. .i If, as I have heretofore suggested, the stall end-frame be secured tothe stall-sides by means-engaging the sides of the stall end-frame, special sizes .eitherof stall end-framesor of attaching means lwill be required in each special case, but-1n the present Instance a construction 1s arrived at whereby two or three stock sizes of sta-ll end-frames can be tted in proper multiples into any size space available.

I lrealize that' 'considerable variation is possible in the details of the pre-sent construction and I do not intend to` limit-myself thereto, exceptaspointed out infthefollow- 'ing claims in which it is my intention to claim all the novelty inherent in th'epresentconstruction as broadly as is 'permitted by the state of the art.

. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: l Y

l. In a barn'equipment, thecombination with fixed vertical uprights forming part of the barn structure, of a stall-end con# struction adapted for'erectionbetwen said uprights and comprising an upper horizontal member extending between the same,ver tical posts adjustably connected to said uplper .horizontal member, a lower horizontal member adapted to be cut into suitable lengths to extend between the fixed uprights and the vertical posts adjacent their lower ends; a stanchion secured to said lower horizontal member, and an adjustable connection between the upper end of said stanchien and said upper horizontal -member,

Ymade up, and it is for such positions that the l In. e bern equipment, the combination.

with fixed vertical uprights forming part of the 'earn structure-,of nl stall-end construction adapted for erectiony between said up-y rlghts and comprising tmupper horizontal member extending between the same, Vertictil posts adjustably connected to said upper horizontal member, a lower horizontal member adapted to be cut into suitable lengths to extendbetween the xed uprights and the vertical posts adjacent their lower ends, an inverted -U-shaped'member securedY at its my hand this 11th lower ends to said lower horizontal member,

and adjustably connected to said upper horizontal lmember, and a stanchion mounted Within said .Ushaped member and connected by said stell-'end construction maybe erected 1n spaces' of varying widths between lthe fixed vertical uprights of the barn structure.

In testimony. whereof I have hereunto set day of Mfar'ch, 1912. A HENRY L. FERRIS..

In the presence nesses.-

D. L. WATTS, c

R. A. HEMENWAY.

of two lsubscribing Wit- 

